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Stephen Hiltner
@sahiltner
editor, writer, photographer at the @nytimes; alumnus of @parisreview, @uniofoxford, @uva
Aug 5, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: Shoddy guidebooks, promoted with deceptive reviews, have flooded Amazon in recent months. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers — but do they even exist? Or are they A.I. inventions? nytimes.com/2023/08/05/tra… @sethkugel and I spent the last few weeks investigating the phony books, and we made some surprising discoveries. First of all, the scale of the problem is dizzying.